Important Messages

Harvest assembly will be on Thursday 9th October at 14:45.  Families are welcome to join!

As part of our Science learning on Inheritance, please can you bring in any photographs of pupils and their family members.

English

This week, we read the first few chapters of Floodland, clarifying the mysterious opening and making predictions or asking ourselves questions.  On a map, we located Norwich and asked why the sea could be rising.  We wrote a setting description of Eels Island and drew the scene, trying to add to the dark imagery the text was creating.  Next week, we will be characterising using dialogue and action, including drama.

Maths

In Maths, we were wrapping our heads around multiplying using the column method.  We discussed vocabulary linked to multiplication and challenged ourselves with TO x TO and HTO x TO as well as applying the skill to problem solving activities.  We also began to find clever ways to multiply decimals.  Next week, we will be learning how to divide using an appropriate method.  

Thematic

Whilst learning more about the importance of Darwin's discovery on the Galapagos Islands, we classified living things including animals, plants and fungi.  We even completed our own surveys of the types of plants that are at Chilton before creating a graph to highlight our findings.  By using a tree diagram, we could ask specific questions to help classify the living things around us.  We began to understand what a fossil is (it is rock!) and we even made our own using plaster of Paris.  Next week, we will be thinking about what makes things living and describe the life cycles of a range of animals and plants.

    

Love 2 Learn

To consolidate our learning of multiplication, please try to complete the attached challenge.

We would also like you to practise these spellings:

hopeless	breathless	careless	endless	meaningless
pointless	homeless	blameless	senseless	bottomless